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Asked it the following to test it:
Took a while, actively showed the source articles it was looking into while it was processing which were clickable. Here's a pdf of the response which is long, and well referenced, pretty interesting IMO, but here's the initial overview:
Which my partner, whose taken some climate classes in college, said sounds right. If anyone thinks this is wrong please feel free to call it out.
You have to go into each article and check the key points, trust me.
It is a god-tier liar.
To be fair though, even if you read the abstracts of papers you need to go in and check the actual data itself to confirm what the authors describe is actually there.
Likewise if a paper cites another study in support and it seems weird what they say, you need to go and check that paper too.
Scientists have been inflating their claims as long as the impact factor exists (and probably longer). This now just makes it even easier to receive lies.
Yeah, it’s just a model with a semantic database it can query (RAG)
AI doesnt understand truth, it averages on data points. It cannot tell the "truth". it can be right sometimes based on frequency of mentioned words and related ones.